State v. Zeitvogel’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2002 · most notably State v. Brown (1995), State v. Clemmons (1988)
4 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Zant v. Stephens · Robinson v. State of California · Jones v. Howard · Bottoson v. Florida · Innkeepers of New Castle, Inc. v. Maley
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Whether the sentence of death was imposed under the influence of passion, prejudice, or any other arbitrary factor; and (2) "Whether the evidence supports the jury’s or judge’s finding of a statutory aggravating circumstance as enumerated in subsection 2 of section 565.032 and any other circumstance found; (3) "Whether the sentence of death is excessive or disproportionate to the penalty imposed in similar cases, considering both the crime, the strength of the evidence and the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Schlup · State v. Clemons“questions during voir dire or, in the alternative, to provide separate juries at the guilt and sentencing phases. Appellant claims such refusal deprived him of a fair and impartial jury representing a cross-section of the community in violation of U.S. Const. amends. VI and XIV. [10] The most recent discussion on this issue recounting our repeated rejection of similar constitutional challenges to”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Roberts“The life sentence that appellant is already serving for first degree murder did not deter appellant from committing still another murder. The imposition of yet another life sentence would serve no purpose other than to signal that there is no real cost for prisoners who kill while in confinement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Clemmons
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.